Book clinic: which books distil the essence of fatherhood?

From 19th-century letters to a graphic novel, here are the works that define dad-dom

Which books should we read to explore the essence of fatherhood?
Don, 30, book editor and literary translator, Wuhan, China

Author Sam Miller, whose book Fathers was published earlier this year, writes:
I had a dream the other day. Of several fathers, bald and lame, thrown into a huge tureen over a great campfire. They were about to be boiled. Not as a way of torturing them, or as a punishment for mansplaining, or even as a way of making them digestible, but in order to create an essential oil, an essence of fatherhood, to be freely sprinkled on to those who wished for better fathers than the ones that nature, and their mothers, gave them.

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